Ferns

Mountain Wood Fern growing along a stream near the Little Brier Gap Trail
This fern is more difficult to identify by appearance alone. I carried a magnifying glass and took photos of the underside of the leaf for the shape of the divisions of the leaflets and the pattern of the sporangia and indusia.
Dryopteris campyloptera
Dryopteridaceae
GSMNP TN 5/09